Strange area

     This has nothing to do with this house or town. A few miles north of this village is a State Park. There is an area in that park where there is almost no sound. My wife first brought it to my attention at lest 20 years ago. Back then we were much younger and more ready to hike and explore the wilderness that makes up much of this park. I didn't think much of it at the time, but the area was quite silent as compared with other parts of the park that we visited. Over the years, this area has become a favorite of ours because ot is an easy walk, has an old interesting ruins of a house and deep picturesque gorge. We have never gone through that area when it was not totally silent. Oh, if the wind is blowing you can hear that. Sometimes a noisy motorboat can be heard on the park's distant lake. But the normal noises that you should hear on a wooded walk, birds singing, insect noises, animals scurring about, are simply not there ,and haven't been, at lest during the times we have been there. The area is bordered by a road, on either side of which are picnic areas. When children are present their voices are heard; but actually this area is not heavily used by picnicers. We have sat on fallen stones at the ruins of an old house and just listened to the silence. The area is certainly peaceful. Once you walk back to where you parked your car, you need only walk on across the road and ten feet into that wooded area for the normal sounds that you expect to hear in the woods to again assert themselves. Why this area is so quiet is a question that has been bugging me for years.